03-01-2023, 02:57 PM
When you allow entities to operate for profit on a market with incomplete - or nonexistent - costs for externalities like pollution, innocent people are going to suffer.
The laissez faire capitalists say the market will correct this. The part they leave out is that the market correction happens by way of the people exposed to toxic waste.
As a civilization we ought to all be carefully examining all the materials we use, especially the things we dispose of constantly, and evaluating whether it is worth the simplicity this brings versus the increasingly difficult to hide costs of pollution and especially toxic waste.
The laissez faire capitalists say the market will correct this. The part they leave out is that the market correction happens by way of the people exposed to toxic waste.
As a civilization we ought to all be carefully examining all the materials we use, especially the things we dispose of constantly, and evaluating whether it is worth the simplicity this brings versus the increasingly difficult to hide costs of pollution and especially toxic waste.